Feb 7 (Bloomberg) — “The exchange rate is not a policy target, but it is important for growth and price stability,” ECB President Mario Draghi said at a press conference. “We want to see if the appreciation is sustained, and if it alters our assessment of the risks to price stability.” Draghi noted that the ECB will publish new economic projections next month and stressed that officials will “maintain our accommodative monetary stance.” Draghi said economic weakness will prevail only “in the early part” of this year and “later in 2013, economic activity should gradually recover, supported by our accommodative policy stance.” Still, risks to the economic outlook remain on the downside, he said. Draghi said if monetary policies produced “consequences on the exchange rate that do not reflect the G-20 consensus, we will have to discuss this.”